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Kenyan Chief Tweets His Way to Reducing Crime By Daniel Sitole NAKURU, Kenya - Using 140 characters or less, Chief Francis Kariuki in Kenya, has tweeted his way to reducing crime in his and surrounding villages. MORE >>
UGANDA Using Community Radio to Heal After Kony’s War By Andrew Green* GULU, Uganda - Radio Mega FM’s transmission tower rises from the centre of Gulu town, transmitting talk shows and the latest Ugandan radio hits to listeners across the district. But it also serves as something of an informal memorial to community radio-driven peace efforts during the Lord’s Resistance Army’s destruction of northern Uganda. MORE >>
UGANDA Rural Women’s Banks Ease Tough Times By Wambi Michael WAKISO, Uganda - For most Ugandan women, obtaining a commercial loan to start a business has been very difficult. Many do not have the required collateral of land title deeds and many cannot afford the interest rates charged by commercial banks. MORE >>
KENYA Four Years On, IDPs Remain in Camps By Peter Kahare RIFT VALLEY, Kenya - Six-year-old Victor Muruga points to a hole in the bush that he calls his "bedroom". "I sleep there, under that tree and my mother sleeps under that blanket," says Muruga. MORE >>
SOUTH SUDAN Still Counting the Dead in Inter-Ethnic Conflict By Jared Ferrie PIBOR, South Sudan - In the ward of a partially destroyed clinic, Mangiro (who did not give his last name) sat on a bed next to his wounded nine-year-old daughter, Ngathin. The little girl is fortunate, she survived the recent inter-ethnic clashes in Pibor county that killed her mother and sisters. MORE >>
Progress Towards a Food-Secure Africa By Miriam Gathigah NAIROBI - A growing number of African countries are making significant progress towards eradicating extreme hunger and poverty. Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and South Africa are some of the countries that have made tremendous achievements towards achieving these goals. MORE >>
KENYA Key Lakes Succumb to Human Activities By Peter Kahare RIFT VALLEY, Kenya - Several years ago, Lakes Kamnarok and Ol Bollosat in Kenya were vibrant water bodies that supported and shaped the ecosystems around them. But today they are shells of their former selves, due to heavy siltation caused by human activities. MORE >>
KENYA Women Set to Make Their Mark in Politics By Protus Onyango NAIROBI - The August 2012 elections in Kenya will open doors to massive political participation by women for the first time ever. MORE >>
KENYA Inflation Deflates New Year Joy By Miriam Gathigah NAIROBI - Kenyans entered the New Year with less pomp and colour that has characterised previous new year celebrations. Due to the harsh economic situation and the fact that it is time for most students to go back to school, many families shied away from entertainment places to save that elusive shilling for their school-going children. MORE >>
SOMALIA Rebuilding Among the Rubble By Abdurrahman Warsameh MOGADISHU - With vehicles and donkey carts packed with their belongings, Somalis are returning, four years after they fled, to their partially standing, bullet-scarred and mortar-shelled neighbourhoods in former Al-Shabaab controlled areas of Mogadishu. MORE >>
SOMALIA Taking Schools Back From Militants By Shafi’i Mohyaddin Abokar MOGADISHU - Schools are beginning to re-open slowly in areas of capital Mogadishu that were until recently controlled by the militant Islamic group al-Shabaab. But an estimated 80 percent of students have not yet returned. MORE >>
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